Memphis vs. Tulane

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Memphis’s biggest win1999: Memphis 49, Tulane 7by 42 points
2. Tulane’s biggest win2000: Tulane 37, Memphis 14by 23 points
3. Upset1999: Memphis 49, Tulane 7Memphis had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2011: Memphis 33, Tulane 17Memphis had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2025: Tulane 38, Memphis 32Tulane had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Memphis’s side (Williamson 2–⁠1 against Smith). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 26, 1954

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

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  The 2011 game

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  The 2011 game

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  The 2011 game

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  The 2011 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Memphis vs. Ole Miss63 meetings, Memphis 12–⁠49–⁠2
• Memphis vs. Southern Miss54 meetings, Memphis 21–⁠32–⁠1
• Memphis vs. Mississippi State46 meetings, Memphis 11–⁠35
• Memphis vs. Louisville41 meetings, Memphis 17–⁠24
• Tulane vs. LSU90 meetings, Tulane 20–⁠63–⁠7
• Tulane vs. Ole Miss67 meetings, Tulane 24–⁠43
• Tulane vs. Mississippi State56 meetings, Tulane 25–⁠30–⁠1
• Tulane vs. Georgia Tech50 meetings, Tulane 13–⁠37